News archive from 24 May 2013

Kenny Bunn grew up in the Anniston Police Department. His father was a motorcycle cop, his mother was a meter maid, and Bunn eventually grew up to work in the department’s old headquarters as a patrol officer in the 1990s.
And while he’s sad to see...

The Calhoun County Sheriff’s Office this week arrested an Ohatchee man in connection with an unsolved homicide from 2009.
Michael William Kiser, 32, was arrested Monday and charged with capital murder in the shooting death of Donald Cameron at...

slideshow Local cities and veterans’ groups are planning observances for the Memorial Day holiday weekend, from somber pomp and circumstance to informal cookout to fundraisers.
Saturday
&#149; The City of Piedmont will host its annual Memorial Day...

U.S. Rep. John Conyers apologized Thursday for Louis Farrakhan's anti-Semitic remarks made during a speech the Nation of Islam leader gave in Detroit last week. "During this speech, Minister Farrakhan made unacceptable racist, anti-Semitic and...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said on Thursday he directed Attorney General Eric Holder to conduct a review of Department of Justice guidelines for investigations that involve journalists and report back by early July.
Obama has come...

The U.S. Forest Service has temporarily closed the Lake Chinnabee recreation area located in Talladega National Forest due to severe flooding on Saturday.
Although no campers were injured at the time, forest officials felt the area needed to be...

The local United Way celebrated the final tally for its yearly community fundraising campaign Thursday -$17.6 million.
The donations will help about 360,000 residents of Orange, Osceola and Seminole counties who need health care, housing, education...

ISTANBUL -- Syria's political opposition met Thursday in Istanbul to elect new leadership, choose a government-in-exile and deliberate on a negotiating stance for peace talks, but it hit a controversy when the immediate past president of the Syrian...

Kenny Bunn grew up in the Anniston Police Department. His father was a motorcycle cop, his mother was a meter maid, and Bunn eventually grew up to work in the department’s old headquarters as a patrol officer in the 1990s.
And while he’s sad to see...

A day after she refused to answer questions at a congressional hearing, Lois Lerner was replaced Thursday as director of the Internal Revenue Service division that oversaw agents who targeted tea party groups.
Danny Werfel, the agency’s new acting...

slideshow A black Labrador retriever wearing a harness that read “do not pet” hurriedly sniffed every person in the room, searching for the telltale odor of an explosive device.
When “Unity” caught wind of the scent she was looking for, she jumped at...

Victoria Gotti’s latest stroke has left her with some paralysis and difficulty speaking, but her family is hopeful she will make a full recovery after physical therapy, sources said.
The widow of Gambino boss John (Dapper Don) Gotti suffered her third...

New Yorkers overwhelmingly want an independent inspector general to watch over the NYPD — and surveillance cameras to watch over New Yorkers, a new poll finds.
The poll from Quinnipiac University found 68% of voters support the creation of an...

WASHINGTON - In his early teens, Jude Kenan Mohammad was a familiar sight in his middle-class section of Raleigh, N.C., riding around on his bike to deliver groceries to elderly Muslim neighbors.
But with an American mother and Pakistani father,...